World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Court Urged To Jail Berlusconi

By Jason Horowitz (NYT)

Published: November 13, 2004

In her closing argument, a prosecutor in the four-year corruption trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi asked the court in Milan to convict him and sentence him to eight years in prison. He is accused of bribing judges in the 1980's and denies the charges. The trial was suspended in June 2003 and resumed in April after Italy's highest court ruled that an immunity law passed by Parliament to shield Mr. Berlusconi from prosecution violated the Constitution. His lawyers are to sum up their case next month. Jason Horowitz (NYT)